Impoliteness Strategies In Pitch Perfect And Pitch Perfect 2 Movies

This research is on Pragmatic scope that focuses on impolitenessstrategies. The unit of analysis is Pitch Perfect movies transcript. It is a qualitativeresearch. It is intended to identify the types of impoliteness strategies chosen bycharacters, how the characters respond the FTAs, and the features of offendingevent that trigger the characters to do impoliteness. This research usedImpoliteness strategies theory by Jonathan Culpeper as the main theory,Impoliteness strategies by Derek Bousfield, and Offending Event by Timothy Jayas the supporting theories. As the result, it was found that all five strategies werechosen by the characters. The strategies from the most chosen to the less chosenwere as follow positive impoliteness strategy, negative impoliteness strategy, baldon record impoliteness strategy, sarcasm or mock politeness strategy, andwithhold politeness strategy. The characters frequently harmed the addressees?face by insulting name calling and using obscure language sub-strategies. Thedelivered FTAs made the addressees dominantly evaluated them with responses.The addressee responded the FTAs by choosing offensive countering. Thecharacters mostly countered the offender by asking a challenge question which isin negative impoliteness strategy. The behaviour feature of offending event wasthe feature that mostly often provoked the characters to do impoliteness. Followedby the status feature, this feature showed an opposition of the impoliteness notion,in which the characters with less power 1) attacked the more powerful addressees,and 2) countered the more powerful interlocutors with more cruel responses. Thefollowing features that influenced characters to do impoliteness were the physicalappearance, social-physical setting, intentionality, language, sex, and age features.xi, 83 hlm.: ilus